Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-15
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The egg shell Is porous, and any NTH on
it soon affects the meat. Eggs should be
cleaned as soon as gathered. if at all
soiled. and those to be put up for winter
should be eggs which have been gathered
as soon as laid The Poultry Monthly.
At the late meeting of the New York
Dairymsn's Association some one re-
ported a saving Of eight cents per COW
daily in the cost Of food merely through
heating drinking water. In dairy OF any
size an economy of this measure would
be well worth practicing.
Raise such apples in kind. perfection
and quality as will amply pay tor saving
or kerping. There are too many poor
varieties and too much poor fruit. Hall
the battle is in having choice standard
fruit we'll grown and tree from the attack
of insect enenlies.-P. NJ. AUGUR, State
PomoIogist Of Connecticut.
Some people seem to think if cows get
water once day it is all they need; but
that is not enough, unless they are living
on succulent food, such as roots or en-
silage. Cattle are their own best judges
of their need OF water. and they do best
when they have their option about using
it, When they drink but once dav. they
overload with it, to their injury. Taking
in an over-supplv of cold water chils the
stomach and occasions discomfort and pain
and, what is worse, stops digestion till the
contents OF the stomach. by slow degrees.
warm up again Lire Stock Journal.
Ventilation is more than important in
our siabes--it is vital. Health cannot
long exist where impure air is breathed.
There are many sources of contamination
to the air OF the best-kept stables. The
only safety, and the largest profit, comes
fr m proper attention to this point, which
becomes more and more essential as we
build warmer barus and keep larger herds
of we'll bred cattle The best system de-
llyers the fresh air at the head OF each
beast near the floor, and carries OFT the
foul air through openings at the top IN the
rear All these openings should be under
control, ana SO raDged as to work pro-
pnrly. no matter from which way the
wind blows our Country Home.
Hon John f. Russell, in addressing the
Massachusetts Board OF Agriculture at its
late meeting at Barre, on the subject of
sheep husbandry said; There are two
different systems OF keeping sheep; one,
to have the lambs come in April and sell
them in June and July; but the best way
is to let sheep be served from August l to
10 and have the lambs come early and then
sell them when 45 to 80 days old. After
60 DAYS old lamb begins to lengthen out
and is not fit to kill until midsummer or
later. Give the sheep all the clover hay
they will eat after lambng with meal and
quarter linseed. Use good she' p of any
breed ,preteriing close wooded sheep, how =
ever, rs long woods are tender animals,
and for the buck use one of the Down
breeds"
Mr.. Lewis +. Allen. long the editor of
the American Shorthorn Herd Book, who
is now living at his farm at Black Rock
near Buffalo, n. r., although in his eighty
o ghth year is yet actively engaged in
practical farming aud ia a constant reader
OF and frequent writer for the agricultural
journals In an article in a lale number
OF the New England Farmer he SAYS:
The disposition to accumulate great
weight Ut tat in any kind of meat stock is
altogether mistake Inordlnate masses
OF fat piled on To lean or muscular flesh IS
worthless, rs human food. and waste of
the additional amount fed to the animal
producing it rhe fat in all our CONSUME
able meats should be iniermiXed with the
lean. thus giving it the patatable taste
SO satisfying to the one who consumes it,"
This is the true secret in fattening. The
meat should be "marbled," that is. packed
tat and lean alternately, not laid on in
Jumps of fat upon layers of lean